Barry Robinson

Barry Robinson is an obese, clinically insane and chemically retarded child.

Normally, Barry takes drugs that retard his criminal mind. As a result, he is naive and slow, and struggles making moral choices. For instance, when he remarks to Steve that he should respect her privacy when Steve tells of him overhearing Francine talking in "All About Steve". Barry can sometimes be reasonably nice. When on his drugs, he takes Stan's insults with rather good humor or completely ignores them. In "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth", he is shown to be able to recognize insults. When Steve insults Snot, Barry raises an eyebrow and gives a sarcastic "Ouch".

Also, despite the drugs, there are times when his evil side leaks through. When Toshi, Snot, and Barry were beating Steve in "When a Stan Loves a Woman", during the beating Barry for no apparent reason says "let's kill his parents next, let's kill them all!" In "Spring Break-Up", he gets excited at the idea of hitting one of the girls with a beer bottle. In "Home Wrecker", he lies to Principal Lewis about how many shots were fired by mobsters leading to a nasty bullet wound in the principal's arm. When the principal asked why he lied, he says it was revenge for tipping his candy over at the start of the episode and then twists the wound adding to the pain. And in "You Debt Your Life", when Barry becomes the school public address announcer, he says a highly dark and disturbing speech into the microphone for the entire school to hear, before Principal Lewis takes over as announcer.

Family
Barry's insanity can be explained by his family life; Barry's parents, Connie & Ted Robinson, have an S&M sex life Barry mentions in "Finances With Wolves", his uncle made him be in several secret basement movies as a child until he got too old in "May the Best Stan Win", indicating Barry was forced to, or since he is apparently sad that he had to stop, more like coerced to, be in child pornography, either with other kids, adults, or even his uncle "May the Best Stan Win", and he says that his parents don't care in "With Friends Like Steve's", then says in a depressed tone, "They never care." Snot mentions to Francine in "The Nova Centauris-Burgh Board Of Tourism Presents: American Dad" that Barry's mom won't let him use the iron, so he imagines himself as a successful dry cleaner in a live action role playing game.

In "The Future is Borax", Barry describes his parent's relationship as "toxic" from their passive-aggressive sniping at each other. However, they managed to reconcile after a visit to Rekindlings, a resort designed to help couples bond.

His parents are introduced in "Stan & Francine & Connie & Ted", where they are depicted as jovial swingers rather than fitting the description of Barry's abusive comments.

Appearances

 * "Pilot (American Dad!)"
 * "Threat Levels"
 * "Stan Knows Best"
 * "Francine's Flashback"
 * "All About Steve"
 * "Con Heir"
 * "Star Trek"
 * "Finances With Wolves"
 * "Helping Handis"
 * "With Friends Like Steve's"
 * "Failure is not a Factory-Installed Option"
 * "Dungeons and Wagons"
 * "Of Ice and Men"
 * "American Dream Factory"
 * "A.T. The Abusive Terrestrial"
 * "Black Mystery Month"
 * "When a Stan Loves a Woman"
 * "The Magnificent Steven"
 * "The Vacation Goo"
 * "Big Trouble in Little Langley"
 * "42-Year-Old Virgin"
 * "Tearjerker"
 * "Widowmaker"
 * "Red October Sky"
 * "Spring Break-Up"
 * "1600 Candles"
 * "Escape from Pearl Bailey"
 * "Phantom of the Telethon"
 * "Chimdale"
 * "Bar Mitzvah Hustle"
 * "Wife Insurance"
 * "Every Which Way But Lose"
 * "Weiner of Our Discontent"
 * "Daddy Queerest"
 * "Moon Over Isla Island"
 * "Home Adrone"
 * "Brains, Brains and Automobiles"
 * "Man in the Moonbounce"
 * "G-String Circus"
 * "Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth"
 * "May the Best Stan Win"
 * "Cops and Roger"
 * "100 A.D."
 * "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls"
 * "A Piñata Named Desire"
 * "You Debt Your Life
 * "I Am the Walrus"
 * "License to Till"
 * "Jenny Fromdabloc"
 * "Home Wrecker"
 * "Virtual In-Stanity"
 * "The Scarlett Getter"
 * "The Wrestler"
 * "Toy Whorey"
 * "Can I Be Frank (With You)"
 * "American Stepdad"
 * "Adventures in Hayleysitting"
 * "The Adventures of Twill Ongenbone And His Boy Jabari"
 * "Naked to the Limit, One More Time"
 * "For Black Eyes Only"
 * "The Missing Kink"
 * "The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith"
 * "Steve and Snot's Test-Tubular Adventure"
 * "Crotchwalkers"
 * "Independent Movie"
 * "Introducing the Naughty Stewardesses"
 * "I Ain’t No Holodeck Boy"
 * "Roger Passes the Bar"
 * "Blonde Ambition"
 * "Scents and Sensei-bility"
 * "Morning Mimosa"
 * "The Life Aquatic With Steve Smith"
 * "Hayley Smith, Seal Team Six"
 * "The Two Hundred"
 * "The Unincludeds"
 * "Widow's Pique"
 * "The Nova Centauris-Burgh Board Of Tourism Presents: American Dad"
 * "Mine Struggle"
 * "Garfield and Friends"
 * "Gift Me Liberty"
 * "Fight and Flight"
 * "The Witches of Langley"
 * "A Nice Night For a Drive"
 * "Bazooka Steve"
 * "Julia Rogerts"
 * "The Life and Times of Stan Smith"
 * "Kloger"
 * "The Talented Mr. Dingleberry"
 * "The Census of the Lambs"
 * "Railroaded"
 * "My Purity Ball and Chain"
 * "Mean Francine"
 * "Persona Assistant"
 * "The Legend of Old Ulysses"
 * "The Future is Borax
 * "Fantasy Baseball"
 * "Stan & Francine & Connie & Ted"
 * "Lost Boys"
 * "Shark?!"
 * "The Hall Monitor and the Lunch Lady"
 * "Mom Sauce"
 * "Demolition Daddy"
 * "The Hand that Rocks the Rogu"
 * "Tapped Out"
 * "American Data?"
 * "Salute Your Sllort"
 * "Ghost Dad"
 * "The Old Country"
 * "The Chilly Thrillies"
 * "300"
 * "Who Smarted?" (mentioned)
 * "Russian Doll"
 * "Shakedown Steve"
 * "The Wondercabinet"
 * "The Sinister Fate!!"
 * "Dr. Sunderson's SunSuckers"